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Dear Neigh6or : Along with others
not to- numerous to mention left the
City on the Congaree Wednesday, July
Is, and was steamed on schedule time
&C.. c. & a. R.,) to Aiken junction-74
miles. A "specal' with two engines
run lis sup the hili' to the famous
health plateau called Aiken.
The extensive and internal improve
msnts in this town since WAS here last
nine years ago-surprised me much and
more. Among the improvements are
we'll painted post Office, a fine brick
court house with clock in the tower
and number Of parks. \ number OF
fine residences. and some new church
buildings take the place of what used tc
be woods or empty space.
1t is gratifying to me (pastor of the
Methodist church here, 1875, 1876, 1871,
to see the tasty improvements and touch.
es about our house of worship within and
without and over the beautiful plat o.
ground belonging on the outside. Ever
more gratifying it is to learn of the pros
perity Of the church in numbers and, il
is hoped, in spirituality. Methodism il
Aiken is now about "in line" in this
growing town.
And here are the venerable Rev. S. P
T. Field Qocal Deacon) and his worthy
help-meet, both feeble, yet persevering
oil nr Mr
and Mrs. Clay, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Yates
Mr.. and Mrs. Wigfall, and others of "my
day" among them that could name
Some arc gone to other parts of this worlt
and some to the other, we hope the bette
world.
DR.. Wood used to give me some pleas
ant rides about the town, but since theI
he found his Mary and she and their fou
children can fill his carriage and if neet
he let him and me walk.
About the same time Mr.. Robert Pow
ell and Miss Fannie Clay joined hand
and hearts just before I pronounced then
"man end wife," Well, it was at the de
lightsome home of brother and siste
Powell and their lovely daughter Win
ME (eight years. that was lodged dur
ing Conference, and more pleasant ant
lovely "home" have never had in forty
one years at any Conference or on an.
other occasion away from my own fami
ly. Besides a delightful evening dirty
with my hostess around Eastern Aiken
T had "Rattler" and the buggy at m.
command. His last kind service and tina
of his master (Mr. P.) was to land mo il
good time Monday morning at the depot
Much left out-but that this may get ol
on train, no more to say now.
S. II. B.
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Lost Time.

"Oh, Miss Jennie" cried little gir]
to her Sabbath school teacher, II am
so sorry, but have lost whole morn
ing" ~,
Miss Jennie, with grave look upon
her sweet face. "How was that
Clara ?"
"Why, mother was so busy, and she
left Harry in my room, and really
Miss Jennie, the little fellow was SO
full of fun that I have done nothing
but play with him."
Just then Harry put up his dimpled
arms 10 "love" Clara, as he called it III
his baby talk. He pressed his lips
upon her cheek, saying, "Me love 100
Cara"
"You have not lost your morning
Clara, said her teacher. "4ou have
helped your mother, and you have
bound your little brother closer to you
by your kindness. Such morning
may have been we'll spent. my dear
A few days after this, Mrs. Palmer
was seized with severe illness. She
could not bear the least noise or confu
sion, and Harry's noisy play distress
ed her very much. So Clara took the
little fellow to her own room, rocked
him to sleep at night, and cared fol
him almost as well as his mother
could, until Mrs. Palmer recovered.
"My dear child" said the physician
as he placed his hand upon the little
girls head, "if your mother had moi
had so kind and thoughtful daugh
ter, T fear that she would not have re-
covered so soon, if at ALL"
Thus little Clara had her reward
Never call that hour lost which i:
spent in making others happy.
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Compared with Luther, Erasmus was

Compared with Luther, Erasmus was
the greater scholar, the more highly
cultivated and courtly man, but in
moral dignity and devotion to duty he
was vastly inferior to the heroic re-
former. The gulf which separated
them is plainly visible in one of Lu-
theirs retorts to q sentiment of Eras-
mus. The latter had said, "If Lu-
theirs doctrine be true, it is, neverthe-
less, so dangerous that it ought to be
concealed, certainly not discussed in
the vulgar tongue and in presence Of
the multitude.n To this Luther STERN
ly replied: II tell you, and I pray you
to lay it to heart, that to me the mat.
ter is serious, necessary and eternal, Of
such momentous interest that it must
be asserted and defended at the risk Of
life itself-aye, though the result
should be not only to plunge the world
in conflict, but to bring chaos back
again and annihilate the universe J"
These widely diverse sentiments illus
trate the opposite characters of the two
men. In Erasmus we see a man
whose spiritual conceptions were so
dim that he was ready to sacrifice the
immortal interests Of mankind to their
present quiet; but in Luther we see a
man whose vision took in the relations
of truth to mems everlasting well-be.
ing. Hence the former was q timid,
ignoble time-server; the latter a
grandly heroic reformer.
Have the courage to do without that
which you do not need, however much
your eyes may covet it. Have the
courage to show your respect for hon
esty, in whatever guise it appears: and
your contempt for dishonest duplicity,
by whomsoever exhibited. Have the
courage to wear your old clothes until
you can pay for new ones. Have the
courage to obey your Maker at the
risk of being ridiculed by men. Have
the courage to prefer comfort and pro-
priety to fashion, in all things. Have
courage to acknowledge your igno-
rance, rather than to seek credit for
knowledge under false pretenses.
Whatever outside Christian work we
may do, therefore, let us not fail to
look we'll to our own households. Jew
ish parents used to say that if they
could have the exclusive control OF
their children until they were eight
wears of age they feared no subsequent
apostacy. If christian parents will
fill their homes with prayer and love
and faithful teaching, and the sweet
spirit of Christ, while their children's
lives are tender and easily impressed
they need not fear that in years tc
come they will fail to be godly and no
BILE men and women.-P1eS6yter
God is entitled to the supreme place
in our hearts. 1t would degrade him
to accept less, and would be unworthy
of us to offer it.
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A GREAT PREACHERS EXPERT
ENCE.-On the last Sunday in the year
l7SS, John Wesley preached to a large
cong gregation in London. "Sir," said
he to his attendant while putting on
his gown, "it is above fifty years since
first preached in this church; re-
member it from particular circum-
stance. I had come without "A SER
mon, and, going up the pulpit stairs, l
hesitated and returned into the vestry,
under much mental confusion and agi-
tation. A woman who stood by, no
ticed my concern, and said, Pray, sir,
what is the matter?' [ replied, i
have not brought sermon with me-
Putting her hand on my shoulder, she
said, rs that all? Cannot you trust
God for a sermon?' The question had
such an effect OH me, that I ascended
the pulpit, preached eXtempore, with
great freedom to myself, and accept
ance to the people; and have never
since taken a written sermon into the
pulpit A word spoken in due sea-
SON, how good is it!
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Jenny, the kitchen maid at Kippoch
manse. was sent by the minister's wife
to invite Mrs. and Miss Snawlip to
take tea with her at five in the after
noon. Jenny solemnly delivered her
message:
"Niy mistress sent me over to ask ye
if We could come tae tea this afternoon,
after five o'clock"
"Yes, tell your mistress we will be
most happy to come," replied Mrs:
Snawlip, graciously. "And was that
all you were told to saye"
"Aye. But she said If ye were
comin' wis tae gang intae the ba-
ker's an get twa loaves;, an, II no.,
wisna lac mind" was the simple re-
ply.
II have known men," says st. Ba-
sill. "who have tasted, and prayed, and
groaned, and yet would not give the
afflicted one farthing." But God said
to Cornelius, "Thy prayers and thine
aims are come up for q memorial be-
fore God"
will gladly curtail my liberty If
thereby can restrain another's license.
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A Sad Sight.

The music of band called us to oul
Beacon Street window to-day, to look
upon the saddest sight we have seen
in Boston. The High School Battal'
ion," a military organization of boys
was escorting the Queen of the ia
waiian Islands. These strlpllnIgs
dressed in blue uniforms, carrying
heavy guns, with fixed bayonets
crowded the street and tried to
''march." The Queen of the Islands,
whose inhabitants were converted tc
Christianity by Titus Coan and Others
sent out by the American Board OF
Commissioners of Foreign Missions
which has its offices in this very build.
ing, was taking Il lesson in the way 9
Christian city educates its boys! Prot
Sargent of Harvard College, the lead
ing teacher of Athletics in America
has pronounced the military drill inet;;
fective as q promoter of health ano
strength, which has been the popular
excuse for Inilitarism in schools. Bul
were it ten times as good for that, il
would not Justify itself. 1t teaches
vanity, excites respect for armies, less
ems q Wholesome dread of war and pro
notes military ambition. To-day il
shows tile Queen of converted heath
en- that Christians teach their children
to fight and honor proficiency in the
art of war as much as the ancient
Spartans did in that of thieving! Alas
for Boston! 1t repented its treatment
of abolitionism and has just honored
Garrison, its champion, with a beauti-
full statue OIL Commonwealth Avenue.
It still honors and cherishes n relic OF
barbarism as inconsistent as Slavery
with the words and Spirit of Jesus
Christ. We hope Queen kapiolanl
will not go home to initiate Boston in
this. God hasten the day when Ha'
waii and the United States shall be;
come provinces of that broader and
higher Kingdom of which the King
said "My kingdom is not of this
world, if my Kingdom were of this
world then would my subjects fight
The Lord has proven himself to be
our God by bringing us out of many 9
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Christian Neighbor.
BY REV. SIDI IL. BROWNE,
OF the South Carolina Conference
Columbia District Conference.

Fifty members all told from first t
last, attended the Columbia District Con
ference held in the Methodist church
Aiken, S. c., July H-l7, S. b. Jones, Pre-
siding Elder, in the chair.
\. NJ. Boozcr and G. p. Watson wer
elected secretaries.
DAILY PROGRAM.
Business from 9 to IL, then preaching
4 to 6-3O p m business; preaching s 30.
The several interests, spiritual ant
temporal, of the church were reported or
by preachers and laymen and inquired
into. Advancement-in some charges
more than others.
The worship of God in the families be
longing to the church WAS emphasized.
The Sunday school cause is gaining
every year.
The systems for working the finances
ofth church-support of the ministry il
particular-are much the same in all the
charges sscxment:" The plan works
we'll where it is we'll worked, but no sys'
tenn will work itself.
A plan was adopted for the liquidation
of the debt (about s2,7OO,) on the District
parsonage.
To aid in the purchase of the "Oliver
property" in Spartanburg fora prepar,
atory school for Wofford college, five
hundred dollars were subscribed.
The more prominent educational inter
ests in the Conference were presented
s. C. AdUocate by w. D. Kirkland, Col
umbia Female college, by o. A. Darby ;
Wofford college by A. Coke Smith.
Resolutions expressive of fidelity and
zeal toward the various interests of the
church were adopted, also one relating
to travel on Railroads on the Sabbath.
Id. Childs, J. c. Counts, J. u. Edison
and D. G. Ruff were elected Delegates to
the Annual Conference J. III. Huiet and
q. A. Smith, Reserves.
Resolutions of thanks for the hospita-
bio manner in which the Conference was
entertained by the good people of the
town and vicinity were adopted by a
rising vote.
Johnston was chosen as the place fol
holding the next District Conference.
No preaching Saturday - business.
Nothing at night but trying to rest and
sleep-so hot. The absence of titles and
adjectives in the brief of proceedings
will be approved it is hoped by all except
those who complained of the cold wealth.
er.
. Sunday: Love feast, preaching, COM
munion, Sunday School Mass meeting
and preaching again at night in the Meth
odist church (South.) The pulpit of the
Presbyterian, Baptist and NJ. Z. churcl
(North) were supplied with preachers Of
the Conference, so too the churches al
Graniteville and at Langley. I went in
the forenoon with my Presbyterian host
and hostess to their church and heard 6
sermon. The names of those who preach
ed or spoke at any time or place is moi
important-so they preached and so the
people believed. l Co. xvii.
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Golden Rule.)

COMPANY MANNERS FOR EVERY
DAY.-A little more formality in serv-
ing the family meals wouldn't harm
ONE households. There is no need OF
saving all the company manners" for
company if you do, the children, al
least, will be found wanting when the
occasion comes. The necessity OF
cheerfulness and contentment at meals
cannot be too often enforced. The
wisdom, on purely physical grounds,
of tranquil mind at meal times, is as
old as Bacon, in our language, and as
ancient as the patriarchs in practice.
The time given to the table ought to
be doubled in many families, and the
cheerfulness, good nature and domes-
tic conversation increased in like ratio.
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(ISamuel ". Boardn,d1.)

So long as merely offensive wars are
the object of detestation, with no at
tack on the war system itself, the wal
ON orr side will be approved as defen'
sive. Sach has been, and will he, the
utterance of every nation. No dogma
that the Papal See ever inculcated car
surpass the war system in absurdity
The burning of heretics to purify the
church is cast into the shade by it.
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Isl. Louis Christian AduOcate.)

A strong infusion of the sermon on
the Mount is much needed in some
popular phases Of modern religion.
The man who sent us five dollars, and
demanding US to cancel a fifteen dol
lar debt by his own motion, without
reference to our rights, or inquiry as to
our willingness, discounts his own
debts sixty-siX per cent and signs HIM
self. "Sanctified and saved, glory to
God" needs strong dose of the Ten
Commandments. There is too much
of this counterfeit religion in circula-
ton. One of its most delusive phases
is profession of high and holy expe-
riences without an .underpinning OF
fair dealing, without the foundation oi
common honesty.
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The Heart.

The heart hath chambers twain
Wherein do dwell
Twin brothers. JOY and Pain.
When waketh Joy in one,
still calmly
Pain Slumbers in his own.
Joy, thy bliss restrain,
Speak softly,
Lest thou should st waken Pain.
Nc1U York Tribune.
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Make Sunday a pleasant day. Lei
il be the field-day of the week. You
need not secularize it; but you can
have some extra sweets prepared fol
It. You can make it the day of song
of good reading, and of loving fellow.
shin. It IS the family day, and ought
TO be always the sweetest of the seven.
Let the large Bible with pictures now
do its best service for the little ones
Let the Catechism have its place, but
do not try to teach it all in one Sun
day. Break the truth into crumbs,
and be as constant as the growing
years of childhood. A college boy
Spent June Sabbath in the home of a
wealthy Christian layman. 1t was
day to be remembered. In the alter
noon there was the cleverly fatherly
talk-better than sermon-and WIN
other ministries, the preparing Dou-
uuets to 60 next morning to the nosPl-
tal and to the homes of the poor III the
great city. Family religion ought 10
crow on Sunday like plants Ell joying
an exceptionally fine day OF ram ana
sun.
When a person uses the first person
al nronoun constantly, and tells how
he advised, and knew, and acted, and
what oreat results came from the fact
of his being in the world, the disgust
of the listener is complete.
Five things are requisite to good
ofIiccr-ability, clean hands, dispatch
patience and impartiality.
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Strange Test of a Call to Preach.

A young man in the mountains OF
n. c., feeling himself called topreach
applied to his church for license. An
eccentric deacon had his doubts about
the genuineness Of the call. So he ap'
piled the following test to the young
man. "Now," said he, elf can
prove to you from the Bible that you
are not called, will you be willing to
withdraw your application" :" "Oi
course" said the young man. "Well,' u
said the deacon, the Bible says: up
on the mountains, how beautiful are
the feet of him who bringeth glad It'd,
ings." Then pointing to the big feet
of the young man, said, "Now look at
your big ugly feet, don't you see that
you are not called?" This was a
"clincher" to the yonng man, and be-
ing surprised and mortified, he with
drew his application, not being able tc
see that heart made beautiful by
grace is the evidence rather of the
call, than pretty feet.
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TO CURE A HORSE OF KICKING
The simple prescription here given has
the Endorsement Of prominent au-
thority in such matters: "If you have
a horse that is in the habit of kicking,
put him in a narrow stall that has
both sides thickly padded. Suspend a
sack filled with hay or straw so that ii
will strike his heels, and let the horse
and sack fight it out. BE sure to have
things arranged so that the horse cam
not hurt himself. The sack will be
victorious every time, and in the end
the horse will absolutely refuse to kick
the sack or anything else."
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SCHOOLS.
Where is She &?

Frisky as lambkin,
Busy MS bee
That's the kind OF little girl
People like to see.
Modest as violet, .....
AS rosebud, sweet
That's the kind of little girl
People like to meet.
Bright MS Is a diamond, .-r
Pure as any pearl
Ev'ry one rejoices In
Such little girl. ..... -l
Happy as a robin,
Gentle asa dove
That's the kind OF little girl -
Every one will love.
Fly away and seek her,
Little song OF mine.
For choose that very girl
AS my Valentine.
Vide A,Ddke.
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Personal.

Rev. l.. NJ. Little, Columbia, was ia
ken seriously ill on Sunday night July
II, but was much relieved Tuesday morn
ing.
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An Edinberg minister OH one occa'
sion happening to visit Il resident o
his parish asked what church he was
in the habit of attending. The man
answered that he had belonged to 9
certain congregation, but that he and
others would not assent to certain
views which were accepted by the ma
jority, and they had therefore formed
a secession. "Then you worship will
those frlends?" "Well, no; the fac
is, 1 found that there were certain
points on which I could not conform
so I seceded.n Oh, then I suppose
you and your wife engage in devotion
together at home" "Well. not pre-
cisely. Our views are not quite in ac
cord. 50 she worships in that corner o
the room, and I in this"
Every good deed that we do is no
only present pleasure, but prop fo
the future.
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Sleep a Preventive of Headache.

A scientific writer says: "Sleep, il
taken at the right moment, will pre-
vent all attack of nervous headache.
If the subject of such headache will
watch the symptoms of its coming.
they can notice that it begins with q
feeling of WEAKNESS or heaviness.
This is the time sleep of an hour, or
even two, as nature guides, will effect
ually prevent headache. If not taken
just then, it will be too late, for, after
the attack is fairly under way, it is inn
possible to get sleep until far into the
night, perhaps. 1t is SO common III
these days for doctors to forbid having
their patients walked to take medicine
if they are asleep when the hour
comes round, that the people have
learned the lesson pretty we'll. and
they generally know that sleep is bet.
ter for the sick than medicine. But il
is not so we'll known that sleep is 81
wonderful preventive of disease--bet'
ter than tonic regulators and stimu'
lants.-ScientDfc american.
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Misery loves company, and compa.
ny causes the good housekeepcr q great
deal of misery, too, when she hasn't
anything cooked in the house.
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The supply CT raw cotton in the Unit
ed States averages 3,OOO, O,OOO, 600 pounds a
year. The supply of raw cotton in Eng
land averages i, ,4O0, 900, 900 pounds year.
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Frankness and HarshnesS.

How often bitter speech, which
has caused keen pain to the hearer'
has been followed by such words as
these, as if in justification of the un,
kindness shown: "I'm plain, blunt
person, and I have to speak out just
what I think. People must take me
as the Lord made me-" Anything
meaner than such an attempt to throw
the responsibility for ones ugliness o!
temper off the LORI it W9u1a we cf
is one thing, but harshness is a very
different thing. The Lord never en-
dowed any man with such a DISPOSE
ton, or put him in such circumstances
that he was obliged to make singing
cruel remarks. Some people have
more difficulty than others in being
sweet-tempered and kindly spoken
but when one fails it is his own fault
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VOLUME XXXII. NO. II,
What Others Say.


If young women knew what young
men think and say of them, when
they pass along the street in pyramid
al hats, which are but cages of dead
birds; dresses displaying the BAND
aged, hour-glass waist, the camePs
hump, the mopping skirt, with front
so strapped as to display the lower
limbs in most unseemly fashion; with
arms akimbo and so pinched that a
sausage is their only parallel; and
this fashionable effigy upborne upon
the same hideous slant-heeled pedes-
tails that the dcnai-naonde of Paris
wear; if even these young women
could hear the remarks Of the young
men as they pass by, they would never
again appear in such a hideous guise.
Contrast with such an image a young
lady, quietly dressed in plated waist,
plain skirt of some soft goods, falling
to the ankle, low-heeled walking
shoes, pretty collar with q bit of rib
bon, and neat cuffs at the wrist, neat
round hat, hair in a simple knot, clear
skin, and cheek touched with the
bloom of youth and purity. No young
man, having one spark of sense or
manliness, could look upon the first
figure without secret contempt, or up
on the last without sincere respect.
One would "lead him a life," the 9TH
er would found him a home. In one
his heart might safely t:ust; the other
would be apt to marry him in haste for
his money, and leave him to repent the
squandering thereof at leisure.